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C'ren Amethyst Le Heart-Bieber is an 18-year-old marine biologist who was tasked to gather some specimen of coral reef on an ordinary day, and when she dove into the waters, she found an exceptionally huge coral reef that actually contains a portal to the world of Spongebob Squarepants, where the characters have actually been turned into humans.

The plot centers more around Justin Bieber than Spongebob himself. C'ren is then revealed to be a crazy, delusional person with plans to rule the world and have Justin to herself forever, using her discovery of this new universe as a front for her plan by injecting mind-control serum into all the patties and destroying all rival food sources, leaving everyone with no choice but to eat the infected patties. Aside from that, she wants to avenge herself from past of abuse.

Artistic License  Chemistry: Apparently, combining human D.N.A. with that of a rabid snail that ate spoiled Krabby Patties will create a pink mind-control serum that, when ingested by anyone, he/she becomes a mind-controlled slave of the human owner of the D.N.A. sample.

Artistic License  Physics: Apparently, a neon sign underwater does not cause electrocution. Generally, everything that happens inside the giant coral reef is this. C'ren even lampshades this in the remake.

Atlantis: The setting of the story, where the Bermuda Triangle is supposed to lead to. According to the fanfic, Bikini Bottom is a city in this state.

Author Appeal: Plankton hating rock music (though at least one episode proved that wrong), almost if not all of Bikini Bottom liking Justin Bieber, Bieber himself showing up in the fanfic and dating C'ren... basically the whole fanfic is made of this trope. This was subverted altogether when the author revealed that his true personality and appearance are the polar opposite of Monica's.

Author Avatar: C'ren is blatantly a perfected (and even more deranged) version of the author's alter-ego Monica.

Author Filibuster: There are 'chapters' with rude author's notes that are longer than the chapter itself.

Beauty Equals Goodness: This is a somewhat complicated example. C'ren's half-brother who raped her repetitively is described as fat and ugly, and depicted as evil, justified because the story was being narrated by C'ren. It turns out after all that her half-brother is not the real Big Bad of the story, but C'ren herself, who is described as beautiful. This was again played straight when James, the author, describes C'ren as someone who a man would see next to his bed after a nasty hangover or someone anyone would only get caught with after losing a bet.

The Bermuda Triangle: In this fanfic, it is said that C'ren found the coral reef with a portal to the Spongebob Squarepants universe in the Bermuda Triangle. According to C'ren, this might explain why ships and aircraft mysteriously disappear: those who disappeared are now inhabitants of Atlantis, where Bikini Bottom is found. However, Human!Spongebob explains that aircraft and ships disappear because of the sins of land humans, thus forbidding them to enter the underwater utopia of Atlantis. Instead, the land humans end up disappearing.

Custom Uniform: In the remake, it is stated that C'ren's diving suit is a sleek, pink catsuit without the bulky equipment that other divers have because of her Super Not-Drowning Skills. She is also the one assigned the difficult job of diving down the deep trenches to retrieve the rare coral reefs.

Darker and Edgier: The remake is this, given that it is written in James's writing style. In the first chapter, C'ren says that the corpses of the people who disappeared probably filled the inside of the coral reef, or worse, they might still be alive, just like her, but their screams cannot be heard in the Void Between the Worlds. Not what you'd expect from a fanfic entitled One Less Lonely Gurl, right?

Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Averted. While it might be somewhat justified that C'ren's father will get abused by his wife as punishment for cheating on her, the story still portrays abuse in a negative light. This is possibly a hint of James's true personality showing through, given that he takes the subject of Domestic Abuse very seriously.

Fictional Document: The whole thing, including the fact that Kataryna Simovitch (C'ren's real name) was just dreaming about being C'ren, is just a book that a fictional author, possibly the real self-insert, submitted as an entry for the (fictional) annual Worst Piece of Literature contest being held in the universe where Plankton's Eye View is being held. Plankton's Eye View starts with Plankton actually reading the fanfic itself.

In Name Only: With the characters getting humanized except for Karen and Sandy, having name changes, and acting Out of Character for a decent chunk of it, it's sometimes hard to tell that it's really a Spongebob story.

Loud of War: C'ren's half-brother made her listen to Green Day and Avenged Sevenfold in full volume, much to her misery. This is not intentional on his part though because he has a good reason for doing this. However, this trope applies because his mother took advantage of C'ren's hatred for the two bands and forced her son to use these as tools of torment on her husband's illegitimate child.

Male Gaze: All the official artworks of C'ren seem to emphasize her...assets. Remember, the author is actually a guy.

Multicolored Hair: C'ren's hair has three colors. The pink and green streaks are just dyed, however.

Only Sane Man: Two of them, actually: Plankton and Fred Rechid. C'ren forced them to subvert this later on.

Only Shop in Town: Invoked. C'ren and Plankton destroyed all other rival food sources in Bikini Bottom in order to force everyone to eat the mind-controlling patties and turn them all into C'ren's slaves.

Out of Character: Basically all the canon characters in this fanfic are this. Plankton seems to be an exception.

The Power of Rock: Word of God says that this is the true motive of C'ren's half-brother of making C'ren listen to rock music; to alleviate her pain. However, C'ren took it the wrong way and instead interpreted rock music as one of the main reminders of her misery.

Purple Prose: Seen in the first few chapters, in the physical description of C'ren and the portal that leads to Bikini Bottom. More so in the remake.

Rape Is The New Dead Parents: This fanfic actually combines both. In the fifth chapter, C'ren was having a flashback of her past through a nightmare where she narrates about her father cheating on his true wife, and that she is the daughter of the other woman who died giving birth to her. The insane wife then commanded her son (C'ren's half-brother) to rape C'ren everyday. Furthermore, she also stabbed her husband in front of seven-year-old C'ren, thus leaving C'ren an orphan.

Reality Subtext: Plankton and the author share names. (Plankton's second name is James.) They are also both short-statured. In this fanfic, C'ren seems to be attracted to Plankton, (see the Unresolved Sexual Tension entry found in this page) as the Monica persona has been said to like short men. In reality, James was rejected by a (tall) girl he was attracted to. This then leads to the possibility that Plankton is the real Self-Insert and that the story satirizes his love life.

Running Gag: The donut has become a trademark of this fanfic. It all began with the very first author's note. The author now uses the word donut instead of don't when making any references to this fanfic. It even became the logo of the rehost website.

Scenery Porn: The author describes the makeovers done to the Krusty Krab and The Chum Bucket in vivid detail, possibly because of Author Appeal on the part of both personas, Monica being a Girly Girl who loves to describe how pink the place is and James being an architecture student. In fact, the clothing descriptions you will find in this story are described normally, proportional to every character and almost resembles what the character is wearing in canon.

Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!: C'ren and Justin Bieber. The rules of the universe where this fanfic was held clearly state that land humans are not allowed in Atlantis because of their sins. Justin Bieber and C'ren, instead of suffering whatever the consequences of trespassing are, end up becoming celebrities instead. Justin Bieber was able to go back up to the land to continue his tour (thus writing him out of the story) despite the fact that land humans are supposed to disappear once they pass the Bermuda Triangle. This was lampshaded by C'ren when she asked Human!Spongebob why Justin Bieber is famous underwater. This may be subverted for C'ren because according to the commentary, C'ren is actually half-mermaid and is the granddaughter of Neptune. That will explain how she can breathe underwater. Then again, she is just a crazy person with a crazy dream.

Word of God also confirms that there are several My Immortal shoutouts in this story, such as the part where C'ren describes the inside of the coral reef as ebony darkness and says that she's not related to Justin Bieber.

Ward, who was supposed to be Squidward, is a shoutout to Final Fantasy VIII and yet another shoutout to My Immortal, considering that Lucian, a character in My Immortal who was supposed to be Lucius, is also a character in Valkyrie Profile.

There are shoutouts to The Sims such as SIMS and Chimps (stands for: Super Intelligent Mutant Squirrels and Chimps) Sandy's organization, and C'ren's real last name, Simovitch, which is Betty Newbie's last name. Also, the fact that she wants to control everybody's minds is a possible shoutout to The Sims, so much so that this might very well be a The Sims fanfic.

There is an iCarly shoutout here, when C'ren told Mr. Krabs that she will give him a Texas Wedgie if he does not hand her the formula.

Shown Their Work: In the remake, it is depicted that the portal to the Spongebob universe is found in the deepest trenches near the Bermuda Triangle, and in fact, there are deep trenches near the Bermuda Triangle, which could possibly explain why ships disappear there. Also, C'ren now mentions something about being able to withstand water pressure in the deep seas, which wasn't considered in the original version.

Super Not-Drowning Skills: C'ren being able to somehow breathe underwater without any given explanation was something that a lot of reviewers complained about. This would've eventually been explained should the author have continued the story.

Take That, Critics!: The author's notes in this story, excluding the last few chapters, get nastier and longer.

There's No Kill Like Overkill: C'ren's father was stabbed to the very death. Possibly an Avenged Sevenfold shoutout, because he died on C'ren's seventh birthday, and also, the song A Little Piece of Heaven has a zombie woman stabbing a lover who violated her.

Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Plankton, who is short both in canon and in the story, and C'ren, who is 5'10. Also, Bieber and C'ren. The Monica persona has been said to be attracted to short guys, so the same is most likely true for C'ren.

Title Drop: Seen whenever C'ren thinks of being Justin Bieber's One Less Lonely Gurl, when Bieber sings her the song in the date, and when Ward tells C'ren about his new job as Bieber's new clarinet player.

Troll Fic: The author himself has already confirmed this in the last chapter.

Unresolved Sexual Tension: C'ren and Plankton. This gets more and more obvious as the chapters go by. There is even a line which states that C'ren programmed all the love a wife can have on Plankton's new computer wife after Pearl broke Karen with a pink baseball bat. Word of God also states that had he continued writing the Troll Fic, he would include sex scenes with C'ren and Justin Bieber in the Kelp Forest. Aside from that, he also stated that there is someone else that C'ren has feelings for, and he is strongly hinting that it's actually Plankton. Oh, and C'ren's name is pronounced Karen, so this might mean something... James revealed in a DeviantArt journal entry that Plankton did become part of C'ren's harem. However, there remains still the possibility that he was just fooling around because it is a Crack Fic character meme. Oh, and aside from that, James did say that C'ren did become a Dominatrix-turned-Goddess in Plankton's Eye View, Chapter 1...

You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Ward and Plankton have light blue and dark green hair, respectively. Patrick also has pink hair. This is justified, though, because Atlantis is depicted in this story as a strange land where hair that is naturally in a color that does not occur in the land is normal.

Your Cheating Heart: C'ren's father cheated on his wife, and with his other woman, had C'ren. His wife found out when he decided to take C'ren with him after her biological mother died of childbirth. Because of this, he and C'ren ended up becoming horribly abused.

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